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Morgan’s nightwatchman ton lifts Glamorgan off bottom
- Updated: August 16, 2016
Glamorgan 280 (Root 98, Wallace 67*, Leach 5-106) and 278 for 5 (Morgan 103*, Donald 57) beat Worcestershire 163 (Hogan 4-44) and 393 (Clarke 98, Fell 65, Leach 65, Wagg 5-90) by five wicketsScorecard
A record-breaking performance by Owen Morgan helped Glamorgan pull away from the bottom of the Division Two table by beating Worcestershire by five wickets in the Specsavers County Championship at New Road.
Morgan, the 22-year-old Swansea-born allrounder, became the first Glamorgan nightwatchman to make a century, reaching an unbeaten 103 with a boundary from the last shot of the match. The county’s previous highest score in this role was 84 by Colin Metson against Kent at Maidstone in 1991.
Morgan is a middle-order player in second-team cricket and here, in only his fourth Championship appearance, he looked a more-than-accomplished batsman in facing 242 balls over five hours and 37 minutes.
Compact and disciplined but not without fluency, especially in his off-side strokes, he hit 13 fours and kept a level head as Glamorgan tiptoed towards their target of 277. Their second win of the summer was completed with almost 18 overs to spare.
“Not in wildest imagination did I think I’d be there at the end,” Morgan said. “My main target was to stay there for the first hour but from there thankfully I managed to bat the whole day and get the side over the …
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